Hi Matabele I've seen the approach of matching any existing tiddler title as a link (regardless of double square brackets), and I can see the attraction in simple cases. But as I say, the problem for TW5 is that at the time of parsing a tiddler we don't know which tiddlers will exist at the time(s) that it is rendered.
Best wishes Jeremy On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Matabele <matabele.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 9:38:22 AM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> Hi Matabele >> >> >> Automatic linking to missing tiddlers is a pretty useful core wiki >>> feature. >>> >> > Why so? If I wish to create a 'missing link' for automatic tiddler > creation, I can easily surround the 'missing link' with double brackets in > a deliberate manner -- this only applies to CamelCase 'missing links' in > any case. > > >> There would be a performance penalty for making it configurable. >>> >> > Perhaps automatic linking to missing tiddlers should be suppressed by > default. > > >> A wrinkle is that we actually do automatic link detection at parse time >>> (rather than render time). Because we cache the results of parsing a >>> tiddler the parsing process mustn't depend on the values of any other >>> tiddlers. So there'd have to be some rejigging to get things working >>> properly. >>> >> > Might be worthwhile -- I am accustomed to the idea of automatic linking > (as in Tomboy) -- indeed, it would be useful if automatic linking were > extended from CamelCase strings to any string matching an existing tiddler > title. > > In summary: > 1. I am of the opinion that the suppression of automatic linking of > CamelCase forms in piecemeal fashion is more troublesome than having to > deliberately mark 'missing links' > 2. Automatic linking of strings matching existing tiddler titles is > useful and should perhaps be extended to non CamelCase strings > > regards > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:jeremy.rus...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
